PARIS — Dominique Malonga has a long-term plan. She intends to play professional basketball for the next 10 to 15 years, and when she’s done, she wants to do something else completely.
For now, she believes it will be related to technology. She is an intellectual at heart. Malonga said that when she was younger — a relative statement, she’s now 19 — she was a “nerd.” She loved to read and to go to school.
Malonga still does, but her interests have become hobbies. She is studying engineering and computing, and learning to code, first Python and then JavaScript, and can build QR codes; she finds time for it on long bus rides across France as ASVEL, her basketball team, shuttles around the country for games.